Increased toxicity in gaming every year

[MARS-03]

Can someone say what happened? I started playing games quite a while ago and I can say that even in the era of COD MW2 people were no where near as toxic as they are now, now a lot of people are insanely toxic. What made this change happen?

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Publicado originalmente por Gus the Crocodile:

Publicado originalmente por Jt:

nothing better to taste the salt of kids

Someone call the cops

Don’t twist my words here

[HALO_run]

much more under age kids are playing game, just like rust, in fact meany games they shouldn't this is why it's gotten so bad.

plus using the two words toxicity toxic, is just as dumb.

[The Afghani Avenger]

People are unhappy. Social media makes them even more miserable. So, you have a bunch of self-righteous, insecure people who take sides and pick fights because it gives them a way to vent their unhappiness. People have become disillusioned and unhappy with life, even before the lockdowns happened, and they're desperately trying to find meaning and purpose. That's where the hashtags, "Righteous Causes" and hot takes on Twitter come in. It's all a lie.

But i can show you the one true source of happiness, because i love you.
https://youtu.be/EI9HZFgEc2c

[Radioactive Grass]

Publicado originalmente por Sckolar:

Gaming is much more competitively oriented these days. Fortnite, Overwatch, League of Legends, CS:GO, Rainbow Six, and probably dozens of others. That's what's popular. Games can't just be games, it has to be multiplayer, and be competitive for many people. This effects people's views on gaming and other people in general.

And team based games can be toxic, but team based competitive games are even worse.

My sentiments exactly, Overwatch being a glaring example of this.

Team based games became toxic because they aren't about playing for fun anymore, they are about playing to win and being a slave to "ThE MeTa!!" And if you don't obey and carry the team, you aren't playing the game correctly.

Team Fortress 2's casual and silly nature is a major part of the many reasons why the game has lasted over a decade and remains comfortably in stream's top 10 most played daily. People just wanna have fun and screw around, this is why meme maps like 2fort and turbine are the most popular.

Overwatch could have ended up the same way had Blizzard not shifted gears towards competitive balancing and putting all their eggs in one basket with Overwatch league.

[Angel]

Everyone's ego levelled up. Because if a team gets defeated, it's always someone else's fault.

...another reason why I prefer single player games

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

salty adult man children and annoying gen Z kids.


tbh games have always been toxic but nowadays the games you play can be more toxic depending. Usually if the game seems toxic 9/10 times it's not them it's you and you should find another game.

Only exceptions are games that are old af like more than 4 years or older and the player base is pretty much peaking at 1k a day.

[Ailes]

Publicado originalmente por Fumo Friend:

[...] Usually if the game seems toxic 9/10 times it's not them it's you and you should find another game. [...]

If people call me a cheater or a f*cking n00b and tell me they had some serious fun with my mother, then that's hardly on me.

[Candyy]

Publicado originalmente por eram:

Publicado originalmente por Pikumiiii ♡:

How much ping did you have in the 1990??

amazingly some games worked really well.

ill give you 1 example. Quake 3 on the Dreamcast we had 33.3k modems with 175 ping but the gameplay was really smooth, very playable.

175 ping?

Wow thats what i get now minimum if i play on asia server...

[Agent]

Don't play PVP, simple.

[luvLunix]

Dunno if there has ever been an 'increase' in toxicity. I'm not even sure if you can put that on a graph. It just exists, and some are more toxic than others.

[Ailes]

Publicado originalmente por Pikumiiii ♡:

[...] 175 ping? [...] Wow thats what i get now minimum if i play on asia server...

If you're playing a game that even shows you your ping in numerical numbers. These days it's not that rare to get three colored bars as you know them from your cellphone instead.

[Murassa [TR]]

Publicado originalmente por Pumblo:

Publicado originalmente por Sckolar:

Gaming is much more competitively oriented these days. Fortnite, Overwatch, League of Legends, CS:GO, Rainbow Six, and probably dozens of others. That's what's popular. Games can't just be games, it has to be multiplayer, and be competitive for many people. This effects people's views on gaming and other people in general.

And team based games can be toxic, but team based competitive games are even worse.

My sentiments exactly, Overwatch being a glaring example of this.

Team based games became toxic because they aren't about playing for fun anymore, they are about playing to win and being a slave to "ThE MeTa!!" And if you don't obey and carry the team, you aren't playing the game correctly.

Team Fortress 2's casual and silly nature is a major part of the many reasons why the game has lasted over a decade and remains comfortably in stream's top 10 most played daily. People just wanna have fun and screw around, this is why meme maps like 2fort and turbine are the most popular.

Overwatch could have ended up the same way had Blizzard not shifted gears towards competitive balancing and putting all their eggs in one basket with Overwatch league.

Ah yes tf2 , the game that still has lot of toxicity after all these 14 years where some ppl think its funny to just stay on 2fort basement as engineer without doing anything is "fun" cuz the "engineer gaming" meme iz very c00l bro and even those ppl get bored after a couple of minutes if they are not afk

Lmao even tf2 itself has a meta , specially mvm, where they start crying like babies if you dont use it ,not even on csgo that happens

So not rly the best example out there

The only reason why tf2 is still alive is nostalgia ,mvm loots, trading and lot ppl not having good hardware

And for some reason i found waaaay more kids on tf2 than any other PvP game out there....

Tf2 could have even more ppl if it wasnt a game that gets boring rly quick honestly

[EASY PETE]

New generation

[ZT Xperimentor]

Especially since esports became a thing, ever since about a decade ago every pvp game has basically been or tried to be the face of gamer culture, which are the most hostile game environments except for puzzle mobile phone games.
Frankly I'm surprised we haven't hit another game market crash yet with all the negative publicity across the board: slave-driving developers, extortionate publishers, rude and crude streamers, abundant debauchery and violent depictions, preachy reviewers, paid news outlets, greedy business practices sacrificing content, not to mention the encroaching DRM and EULA leashing everything not explicitly sold on a self-contained disk.

[Vendicator Senpai]

more people = more toxicity except in tf2 and warframe those games are free from that curse